Supercapacitors? It’s a Wrap

Dean Sigler Electric Powerplants, Sustainable Aviation Leave a Comment

Recent entries in Electricvehiclesresearch.com alerted your editor to a novel combination of batteries and supercapacitors to gain power and energy – usually mutually exclusive in energy storage devices.  The Paper Battery Company (an intriguing name) makes an extremely thin supercapacitor that can be literally wrapped around a battery or structure to make a hybrid energy storage device that allows the best features of both. Their PowerWrapper™ Supercapacitor is a half-millimeter thick (or as Paper Battery insists –thin) 4.5 Volt device that can be flexed to fit over or around “your device, folds, bends or cut outs.”  This conformability still allows hundreds of thousands of charge/discharge cycles, supercapacitor longevity being one of their big selling points. Others, according to the firm’s web site include: Voltage up- and down-conversions as either continuous streams or pulses at high power from any battery chemistry to maximize its extractable energy. …Electronics integration of advanced high energy battery chemistries without conventional large, noise-inducing converters. … High …